M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
20 “(A)Yahweh will send upon you the curse, confusion, and (B)rebuke, in all [a]that you send forth your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until (C)you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me. 21 (D)Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it. 22 (E)Yahweh will strike you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with [b]the sword and (F)with scorching wind and with mildew, and they will pursue you until (G)you perish. 23 And [c]the heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron. 24 (H)Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 “(I)Yahweh shall cause you to be [d]defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will (J)become an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 (K)And your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27 “(L)Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with (M)tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28 Yahweh will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart; 29 and you will [e](N)grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not succeed in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed all your days, with none to save you. 30 (O)You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; (P)you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not [f]use its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you and will not be returned to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you. 32 (Q)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them all the day long; but there will be nothing [g]you can do. 33 (R)A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed all your days. 34 And you shall be driven mad by the sight of what your eyes see. 35 (S)Yahweh will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. 36 (T)Yahweh will lead you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, (U)wood and stone. 37 (V)You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the people where Yahweh drives you.
38 “(W)You shall bring out much seed to the field, but you will gather in little, for (X)the locust will consume it. 39 (Y)You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them. 40 (Z)You shall have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off. 41 (AA)You shall become the father of sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. 42 (AB)The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground. 43 (AC)The sojourner who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. 44 (AD)He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; (AE)he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 “So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you (AF)until you are destroyed, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 And they shall become (AG)a sign and a wonder on you and your seed forever.
47 “(AH)Because you did not serve Yahweh your God with gladness and a merry heart—because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh will send against you, (AI)in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He (AJ)will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
49 “(AK)Yahweh will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, (AL)as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose tongue you shall not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance who will (AM)have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. 51 Moreover, it shall eat the [h]offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also will not allow grain, new wine, or oil, and the increase of your herd or the young of your flock to remain for you until they have caused you to perish. 52 (AN)And it shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your gates throughout your land which Yahweh your God has given you. 53 (AO)Then you shall eat the [i]offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom Yahweh your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [j]oppress you. 54 The man who is [k]refined and very delicate among you [l]shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife [m]he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain, 55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else remaining, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [n]oppress you in all your gates. 56 (AP)The [o]refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and [p]refinement, [q]shall be hostile toward the husband [r]she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, 57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her [s]legs and toward her children whom she bears; for (AQ)she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [t]oppress you in your gates.
58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to [u](AR)fear this glorious and fearsome (AS)name, Yahweh your God, 59 then Yahweh will bring wondrous plagues on you and plagues on those who are your seed, even great and enduring plagues, and miserable and enduring sicknesses. 60 (AT)And He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring on you (AU)until you are destroyed. 62 Then you shall remain few in number, (AV)whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 63 And it will be that as Yahweh (AW)delighted over you to prosper you and multiply you, so Yahweh will (AX)delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be (AY)torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. 64 Moreover, Yahweh will (AZ)scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall (BA)serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. 65 (BB)Moreover, among those nations you shall find no relief, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there (BC)Yahweh will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. 66 So your life shall [v]hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day and shall not have any faith in your life. 67 (BD)In the morning you shall say, ‘Would that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Would that it were morning!’ because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see. 68 And Yahweh will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
Daleth
25 My (A)soul clings to the dust;
(B)Revive me (C)according to Your word.
26 I have recounted my ways, and You have answered me;
(D)Teach me Your statutes.
27 Make me understand the way of Your precepts,
So I will (E)muse on Your wondrous deeds.
28 My (F)soul [a]weeps because of grief;
(G)Raise me up according to Your word.
29 Remove the false way from me,
And graciously grant me Your law.
30 I have chosen the faithful way;
I have [b]placed Your judgments before me.
31 I (H)cling to Your testimonies;
O Yahweh, do not put me to shame!
32 I shall run the way of Your commandments,
For You will (I)enlarge my heart.
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33 (J)Instruct me, O Yahweh, in the way of Your statutes,
That I may observe it to the end.
34 (K)Cause me to understand, that I may (L)observe Your law
And keep it (M)with all my heart.
35 Cause me to walk in the (N)path of Your commandments,
For I (O)delight in it.
36 (P)Cause my heart to incline to Your testimonies
And not to (Q)dishonest gain.
37 Cause my (R)eyes to turn away from looking at worthlessness,
And (S)revive me in Your ways.
38 (T)Cause Your [c]word to be established for Your slave,
[d]As that which produces fear for You.
39 (U)Cause my reproach which I dread to pass away,
For Your judgments are good.
40 Behold, I (V)long for Your precepts;
Revive me in Your righteousness.
Vav
41 May Your (W)lovingkindnesses also come to me, O Yahweh,
Your salvation (X)according to Your [e]word;
42 So I will have an (Y)answer for him who (Z)reproaches me,
For I trust in Your word.
43 And do not take away the word of truth utterly from my mouth,
For I [f](AA)wait for Your judgments.
44 So I will (AB)keep Your law continually,
Forever and ever.
45 And I will (AC)walk in a wide place,
For I (AD)seek Your precepts.
46 I will also speak of Your testimonies (AE)before kings
And I shall not be ashamed.
47 I shall [g](AF)delight in Your commandments,
Which I (AG)love.
48 And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments,
Which I (AH)love;
And I will (AI)muse on Your statutes.
Seek Yahweh While He May Be Found
55 “Ho! Every one who (A)thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have (B)no [a]money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy (C)wine and milk
(D)Without money and without cost.
2 Why do you [b]spend money for what is (E)not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and (F)eat what is good,
And (G)delight your soul in richness.
3 (H)Incline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, that your soul may (I)live;
And I will cut (J)an everlasting covenant with you,
According to the (K)faithful lovingkindnesses of David.
4 Behold, I have given (L)him as a witness to the peoples,
A (M)ruler and commander for the peoples.
5 Behold, you will call a (N)nation you do not know,
And a nation which knows you not will (O)run to you,
Because of Yahweh your God, even the Holy One of Israel;
For He has (P)adorned you with beautiful glory.”
6 (Q)Seek Yahweh while He may be found;
(R)Call upon Him while He is near.
7 (S)Let the wicked forsake his way
And the unrighteous man his (T)thoughts;
And let him (U)return to Yahweh,
And He will have (V)compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will (W)abundantly pardon.
8 “For My thoughts are not (X)your thoughts,
Nor are (Y)your ways My ways,” declares Yahweh.
9 “For (Z)as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the (AA)rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And giving (AB)seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 So will My (AC)word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will (AD)not return to Me empty,
Without (AE)accomplishing what pleases Me,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
12 For you will go out with (AF)gladness
And be led forth with (AG)peace;
The (AH)mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you,
And all the (AI)trees of the field will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the (AJ)thorn bush the (AK)cypress will come up,
And instead of the (AL)nettle the myrtle will come up,
And [c]it will be to Yahweh for His [d](AM)renown,
For an everlasting (AN)sign which (AO)will not be cut off.”
The Preaching of John the Baptist
3 Now (A)in those days [a](B)John the Baptist *[b]came, [c]preaching in the (C)wilderness of Judea, saying, 2 “(D)Repent, for (E)the kingdom of heaven [d]is at hand.” 3 For this is the (F)one referred to [e]by Isaiah the prophet, saying,
“(G)The voice of one [f]crying in the wilderness,
‘(H)Make ready the way of the [g]Lord,
Make His paths straight!’”
4 Now John himself had [h](I)a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was (J)locusts and wild honey. 5 Then Jerusalem (K)was going out to him, and all Judea, and all (L)the district around the Jordan; 6 and they were being (M)baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.
7 But when he saw many of the (N)Pharisees and (O)Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You (P)brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from (Q)the wrath to come? 8 (R)Therefore bear fruit (S)in keeping with repentance; 9 and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘(T)We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham. 10 And the (U)axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore (V)every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
11 “As for me, (W)I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; (X)He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His (Y)winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will (Z)gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the (AA)chaff with (AB)unquenchable fire.”
The Baptism of Jesus
13 (AC)Then Jesus *arrived (AD)from Galilee at the Jordan coming to John to be baptized by him. 14 But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?” 15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us (AE)to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he *permitted Him. 16 And after being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and [i](AF)he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon Him, 17 and behold, there was a voice out of the heavens saying, “(AG)This is [j]My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”
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